Real-time
Two-way sync
Changes in Materialize or Workday instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.
Data warehouse ⇄ Accounting and finance
Materialize to Workday integration — real-time, two-way sync
Keep Materialize and Workday in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.
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Why teams connect Materialize and Workday
Land the financial records from Workday in Materialize continuously, and write results back, without building or maintaining a pipeline.
Finance data belongs in the warehouse: revenue, invoices, payments, and customers joined with everything else the business measures. Getting it there usually means an extraction pipeline that breaks quietly and delivers yesterday's numbers.
Stacksync syncs Workers, Organizations, Positions, Compensation from Workday into tables in Materialize in real time, and the connection works in both directions: values computed in Materialize can be written back to fields in Workday where you want them operational. Schema changes are handled, API limits are managed, and the sync is something you configure rather than code you maintain.
Common use cases
- Sync worker records from Workday into IT and identity systems so hires, transfers, and terminations provision access automatically.
- Replicate worker, organization, and compensation data into a secured database for people analytics without giving analysts tenant access.
- Drive alerting and operational tooling from SUBSCRIBE change streams instead of scheduled queries.
- Maintain real-time inventory, usage, or account-health counters consumed by customer-facing applications.
Finance analytics without ETL
Invoices, payments, and customer records from Workday arrive in Materialize as queryable tables, current within seconds instead of a day behind.
Revenue joined with everything else
Analysts combine Workday's financial records with product, marketing, or operational data already in Materialize for reporting the finance system cannot do alone.
Write-back of computed fields
Scores or segments computed in Materialize, like payment-risk flags or customer tiers, sync back onto records in Workday where the finance team can act on them.
What you can sync between Materialize and Workday
Representative objects on each side — any object or custom field can map to any target. Schemas are auto-detected; types are converted between the two systems.
| Materialize objects | Workday objects | |
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| Indexes In-memory arrangements that make view reads fast for serving workloads. | Workers The central HCM record covering employment, job, and personal data; the anchor of most syncs. | |
| Clusters Compute pools that isolate ingestion, view maintenance, and serving. | Organizations Supervisory and company hierarchies read to drive routing and reporting in other systems. | |
| Connections & Secrets Stored credentials and endpoints used by sources and sinks. | Positions Job seats synced with recruiting and planning tools. | |
| Schemas & Databases Namespaces that organize objects a sync targets. | Compensation Pay components read into payroll, planning, and equity systems under strict access control. | |
| Tables User-managed tables that accept INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE from sync pipelines. | Time Off and Absence Balances and requests synced with scheduling and workforce tools. | |
| Sources Ingestion points (Kafka, Postgres CDC, MySQL CDC, webhook) that feed external data into Materialize. | Payroll Results Completed pay data exported to finance and benefits systems. |
What ships with Materialize ⇄ Workday
Connect Materialize and Workday for flexible, real-time data sync.
Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Materialize–Workday connection.
No-code + pro-code
Workflow automation
Trigger automated workflows whenever Materialize or Workday data changes, update records, fire webhooks, or kick off sequences without brittle API scripts.
At scale
Event queues
Handle millions of events per minute without losing a single Materialize or Workday record.
Observability
Monitoring
Track your Materialize ⇄ Workday sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.
Trading partners
EDI
Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Materialize and Workday.
How the Materialize and Workday connectors work
Materialize
- Integration surface
- PostgreSQL wire protocol (SQL)
- Authentication
- Database credentials (username/password; app passwords in the managed cloud service)
- Change detection
- SUBSCRIBE queries stream row-level changes of any view or table to the client
- Capabilities
- read · write · CDC
Workday
- Integration surface
- SOAP Workday Web Services (WWS), a REST API, and Reports-as-a-Service (RaaS) endpoints for custom reports
- Authentication
- OAuth 2.0 for the REST API; integration system users with WS-Security or certificate-based auth for SOAP
- Change detection
- Polling, including transaction-log criteria on SOAP operations to fetch objects changed since a given moment; no general webhook surface
- Capabilities
- read · write
How it works
How to connect Materialize to Workday — three steps, no code
Configure and sync within minutes, no code. Whether you sync 50k or 100M+ records, Stacksync handles the queues, infra, and plumbing. Integrations are non-invasive and need zero setup on your systems.
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Connect your apps
Authenticate Materialize and Workday with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.
Materialize
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Choose tables
Pick the Materialize and Workday objects to sync — Stacksync auto-detects both schemas, including custom fields where the platform exposes them. Sync to existing tables, or let Stacksync create new ones with ideal data types.
objects · Materialize ⇄ WorkdayCustomers 12,480Sales Orders 8,213Invoices 5,902Items 1,344 - 03
Map fields
Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.
Materialize WorkdayCompany company_name textEmail email textAmount amount numericCreated created_at timestamp
FAQ
Materialize and Workday integration FAQ
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Yes. Stacksync provides a managed, real-time two-way integration between Materialize and Workday: authenticate both systems, choose the objects to sync (such as Materialize's Indexes and Clusters), map fields visually, and changes propagate both ways in milliseconds — no code required.
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On the Workday side: Workers, Organizations, Positions, Compensation, plus custom fields where Workday exposes them. On the Materialize side: Sources, Materialized Views, Sinks, Indexes. Stacksync auto-detects both schemas and converts types between the two systems.
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Yes. Each object mapping can be bidirectional or restricted to a single direction (both systems accept writes). Read-only mirrors, one-way pushes, and full two-way sync can be mixed in the same integration.
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Common patterns for Materialize and Workday: Finance analytics without ETL; Revenue joined with everything else; Write-back of computed fields. Invoices, payments, and customer records from Workday arrive in Materialize as queryable tables, current within seconds instead of a day behind.
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Materialize: PostgreSQL wire protocol (SQL). Authentication: Database credentials (username/password; app passwords in the managed cloud service). Workday: SOAP Workday Web Services (WWS), a REST API, and Reports-as-a-Service (RaaS) endpoints for custom reports. Authentication: OAuth 2.0 for the REST API; integration system users with WS-Security or certificate-based auth for SOAP. Stacksync manages authentication, retries, and rate limits on both sides.
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Workday: Workday is a multi-tenant SaaS where each tenant's configuration differs and web services are versioned, so integrations pin a WWS version and upgrade deliberately. Materialize: Views are maintained incrementally as data arrives rather than recomputed at query time, which is what makes reads consistently fresh. Stacksync's field mapping accounts for these differences between Materialize and Workday without custom code.
SECURITY
Security teams love Stacksync
As a data company, we understand the importance of keeping your data secure. Stacksync is built with security best practices to keep your data safe at every layer, and is DPF-certified for US, EU, UK and CH data transfers.
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GDPR
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SSO & SCIM
Let your users access Stacksync from your centralized user management systems. Works with Okta, Azure, Google SSO and more.
Alerts
Immediately get alerted about record syncing issues over email, Slack, PagerDuty and WhatsApp. Resolve issues from a centralized dashboard with retry and revert options.
Secure connection options
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